At the Cathedral, Ringing In the New

The Washington Post | October 5, 1990| | Copyright

Hoofing it down Wisconsin Avenue on the hot and dandy day I got wind of the big bells at 3:10 and gave my ticket at the main door of the cathedral at 3:20, not expecting a three-hour service but what the hell, they don't dedicate the biggest church in town every day.

After 83 years of building and futzing about and dawdling, the Washington Cathedral was at last finished. When we started going to Evensong there in the late '40s there was no nave and you sat under a tin roof that leaked when it rained. On this day, however, shipshape city.

When I go into that church now I look first at the ...

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